The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-03-16
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The State of New Hampshire last
year paid sl93 for grasshopper bounties and
$500 on bears.
Burnett Tiffany, whose secret mar
riage to Bertha Peirson created 30 much
gossip in New York, has sailed for Havre,
aud the understanding is that he has left his
two weeks bride never TO return TO her. He
was prompted by his parents, it is said, in
taking the step, ald the young bride lan-
cuisines in the back room of a third-story
tenement without any visible means of sup
port
One hundred colored persons were
taken to Peoria, Ill, to take the place OF strik-
ing miners and considerable EXCITEMENT was
the result The new men claim that they are
able to defend themselves and will go to work
despite the threats of violence.
The workingmen in Rochester, n.
Y, have determined to demand nine hours as
days work. and if 1t is not granted to strike.
Speaker Carlisle was the chief guest
and the orator of the occasion at dinner gwen
in Boston by the Bay State Club, the most inn
portant Democratic organization in New Eng
land
General McClellan's papers show
that on the eve of the failure OF Grant & Ward
he and General Grant had arranged to take
control of the Nicaragua canal project.
Fire destroyed the Commercial Press
at New Orleans, with a large amount OF cotton,
the total loss being $3.50
1t is rumored in San Francisco that
Senator Fair has sold to the Southern Pacific
Company, for $4,000, O0O, the Santa Cruz
steam road and the Oakland cable system.
About $500, 900 was paid by New
York house, possibly in behalf of the st Paul
Road, for twenty-five miles of track and the
franchises Of the Joliet, Aurora and Northern
Railway.
The funeral of Mrs. Neebe, wife of
one of the condemned anarchists, was made
the occasion at Chicago of formidable dem
onstraton by the followers of the red flag.
Addresses were made by George Schilling and
Paul Grottkau, the latter denouncing the au-
thorties for indirectly causing Mrs. n 'ebe's
death. The Paris commune was eulo 5iz3d at
length and Its leaders treated as the pioneers
of great and good cause.
Over two hundred persons engaged
in a fox-hunt near Jacksonville, Ii, AID
killed three foxes their reward
Nearly nine hundred fruit cars,
awaiting loads OF oranges, are lying at tle
chief shipping points in southern California.
G. +. Bresler, of Detroit, forwarded
Michigan raccoon mat of UNIQUE design for
presentation to the Emperor OF Germany on
his ninctieth Lrthdty.
Colonel Worden, an agent of the
General Land Office, Ia. forced several lum-
Der companies in Michigan to pay for GU ting
Government timber
The grand jury at Morris, ILL.,, re-
turned u joint indictment against both
Schwartz and Watt for the murder of kellogg
Nichols, the Rock Island express messenger
Henry F. Gillig, manager of the
American exchange in Europe, followed L wv
/ renee Barrett TO Grand Rapids Mich, and at
tached his properties and $3.50 in the box
Office on a claim for sl2, 592 advanced in Eng
land. Mr.. Barrett: gave bonds to produce the
property when wanted
In the opinion of Senator Allison of
Iowa an extra session of Conges will BE- ne
ce ssary not later than October to graphic with
the surplus problem
Work on the naval vessels Chicago,
Atlanta and Boston was suspended pending
a decision as to whether or not they can be
completed since Congress failed to make spe-
cfic appropriation.
Minister Manning will be permitted
to resign at all early date. II is probable that
the vacancy will be filed by the promotion of
the Secretary of the Legation, Thomas b.
| Connery.